BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurdish fighters raced from Turkey and Iraq into neighboring Syria on Saturday to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. As the fighting raged, more than 60,000 mostly Kurdish refugees streamed across the dusty and barren border...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Secretary General of Syrian National Coalition has refuted statements carried by veteran opposition figure, calling for joint government with Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Mr. Nasr al-Hariri, NC Secretary General,  said in statement...

BEIRUT ( The Daily Star ) : A Lebanese policeman pled for his life as he watched a fellow captive be executed with a gunshot to the head, in a video released by Nusra Front Saturday. The video showed soldier Mohammad Hammieh asking the Lebanese to put an end to...

(Reuters) - Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told...